English example sentences with "linguists"

Generally speaking, women are better linguists than men.
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Generally speaking girls are better linguists than boys.
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Compared with the Chinese, the Japanese are poor linguists.
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He works at a scientific institute where linguists, literature scholars, historians, sociologists, economists, and other scholars investigate everything that has to do with gnomes.
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Once dismissed as an artificial language, Esperanto has gained the respect of a new generation of linguists, as the most successful planned language of all time.
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A woman whose tongue grew out of the roof of her mouth soon found herself surrounded by overeager linguists.
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Linguists are both athletic and educated, and that's just their tongues.
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A bilingual person can change from one language to another in the middle of a sentence, and this code-switching is a topic of study for linguists.
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Some linguists have remarked that in international communication English works best when there are no native speakers present.
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Linguists' help needed.
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Language is an important matter, so don't leave it to the linguists.
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Forensic linguists, recognizing that no two people use language in exactly the same way, will examine the idiolect of an extortion letter to determine authorship.
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Basque may well be the most unusual language of Europe: it has an unconventional structure and is not akin to any other language, and just because of that it lends itself as a worthwhile field of research for linguists.
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Prescriptive linguists are literally the worst.
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Linguistic prescriptivism is unscientific, and is criticized as such by those who are actual linguists.
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No serious North African linguist considers Kabyle as a language on its own. In fact, all serious linguists consider Kabyle as a Berber dialect.
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People can accuse me of lying, but can they deny brilliant linguists like Salem Chaker, Kamel Nait Zerrad or Miloud Taifi when they claim that Berber is a language?
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You can speak about the future in the English language, and this is usually called the future tense. But many linguists (people who study languages) will tell you that the English language does not actually have a future tense.
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Lithuanian is a Baltic language which is often compared to Sanskrit by linguists due to their striking similarity.
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The Taa language, also known as ǃXóõ, is native to Botswana and Namibia, and of particular interest to linguists due to its large number of phonemes and frequent use of click consonants.
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This self-centered incompetent asshole can go shove his algorithms up his ass and leave linguists alone do their job properly.
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Considering the various Berber dialects as separate languages is a gross linguistic misconceptions. Brilliant linguists like Salem Chaker, Kamel Nait Zerrad, and Miloud Taifi talk about one and only Berber language.

Today, at a lecture on linguistics, I rehabilitated Russian linguists.

One of my fantasies is to visit Oz, Australia. In my life, there was a phase wherein I studied Australian Aboriginal languages. Foremost linguists whose work I have read are Barry J. Blake and Robert M. W. Dixon. In their research, the language samples are like little stories. How people lived in the ancient deserts fires up my imagination. The Aborigines ate witchetty grubs and played with boomerangs.

In 1960, linguists predicted that compulsory education, mass media, foreign immigration and the “mobility of restless Americans” would ultimately standardize English, and in only a few generations, regional accents would disappear.

Stating that Berber dialects are separate languages is a common fallacy upheld by Western linguists who have little knowledge about the linguistic reality of North Africa. Mutual intelligibility among Berber speakers, particularly those who speak Northern Berber dialects is a verifiable fact.

Linguists recognize that Northern Berber dialects are verifiably mutually intelligible.

According to linguists, Berber is not a language but a group of languages.

To me, it seems odd to have to defend language creation, and yet it's been repeatedly attacked, mainly by linguists (which is the most baffling part about the whole business), and decried as a form of frivolity which should not and cannot be taken seriously by anyone, or even wicked (I've heard it).

Practically all natural languages are just "fucked-up evolution." The odd people want to learn the odd irregularities of such languages. Artificial languages have the advantage of intentional design. Some linguists or polyglots opine that the languages that they know are like "trophies" for them. It is not really this way with me.

I think linguists would be ecstatic if you did the work and were able to show, rigorously, that Hungarian and Turkish were related.